Just so folks know, I am actually trying to figure out why the main page takes something like a hundred thousand years (I.e.: 12.5 seconds) to load.

It’s especially frustrating, since it doesn’t happen here, where I’m loading most of the same scripts, or here, where I’m using the same layout.

I took the basic template and stripped out all the extra scripts for picture swapping, color loading… heck, I even stripped out blogrolling to see if that was it. It’s not — the page just takes 12 times as long to load.

It all loads at the same speed for me, it seems.

Really? That's weird. How's does the load time compare for other people.

I've noticed that the main page takes a lot longer (yeah, around 12 seconds or so) to load. I wonder if other browsers have the same problem? Clovis, you use Opera don't you?

The main page takes about 12 seconds on a weekend afternoon, about 6 seconds this morning. The orange page took about four seconds and the other one took about two.

Yeah, same here. Main page loads at about 20 seconds (sucky dialup), the orange page in about 4.

One clue may be that it seems that nothing renders until it's all ready to render. Which makes me think that it's tied into everything being embedded in variable-width tables.

Hmmmm.

Yeah, I think that's it. Your entire body is in two nested tables of no particular width, which can't be rendered until everything is loaded and evaluated.

The brown page, on the other hand, has a table that is specified right off the bat as 90% width, and your TDs have width, too. Hence, faster rendering.

That's my story, at lesat.

Yep...

It's working fantastic today.